> I'll take a GPU mining in Iceland over a bomb dropped in the Middle East as the backing to my finances any day of the week. This is a false choice, clearly.

> I'll take a GPU mining in Iceland over a bomb dropped in the Middle East as the backing to my finances any day of the week. This is a false choice, clearly. But regardless, I don't think you're properly accounting for how bad of an externality climate change is, and the (completely unnecessary) CO2 emissions from mining bitcoins is directly linked to a whole future of bad things happening, not just a single bomb.